PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The state’s first witness in the trial of Luis “Fat Boy” Gonzalez collapsed into quivering hyperventilation and tears Thursday as she began to describe the man who shot her and killed a 12-year-old girl at the surprise graduation

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Katie Mulvaney
Posted May. 22, 2014 @ 12:02 pm

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The state’s first witness in the trial of Luis “Fat Boy” Gonzalez collapsed into quivering hyperventilation and tears Thursday as she began to describe the man who shot her and killed a 12-year-old girl at the surprise graduation party she threw for her daughter last June.

“I am never going to forget his eyes. I have them in my head,” Vilma Tineo said through a Spanish language interpreter.

Seconds later, Tineo said she could not could not continue after being asked by Assistant Attorney General Stacey Veroni about identifying the shooter. Harriet Street, or H-Block, gang member Branden “Blaze” Castro has admitted to firing the gun that killed sixth grader Aynis Vargas, and wounded Tineo and two other party goers.

Gonzalez, who wiped his eyes during portions of Tineo’s testimony, is on trial for allegedly conspiring with Castro and three other H-Block gang members to murder Vargas and wound Tineo and two others. The heavyset Gonzalez, who sits on a bench, hung his head during much of Tineo’s testimony.Teomel Vargas, Aynis’s father, asked that rescue crews be called as Tineo gasped for breath.

The trial before Superior Court Judge Robert D. Krause is set to resume Thursday afternoon.